Best Spick And Span Poems
Abandoned
...I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose Cottage. I was taken by surprise when I received a letter from her solic......
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Categories:
spick and span, growing up, house, memory,
Form:
Haibun
Snake Oil Man In Milton Creek
...It was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise
Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a surprise
Outside the saloon wagons were unloading, before noondays heat
......
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Categories:
spick and span, america, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Salted Kisses
...Salted kisses
The ferocious rolling waves
Were broken by the shoreline
Into gentle caressing streams
Wet, fine, white sand grains
Gently scouring and washing with each new step
Left our fee......
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Categories:
spick and span, beach, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Romanticism
The Kitchen Not the Cake
...There’s cheap lunches in the Barley Tavern,
each Wednesday, when after one o’clock.
I always chose to eat beer battered fish,
plus mystery cake a little bit ad hoc.
And this Wednesday here in the......
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Categories:
spick and span, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Show Your Card
...I was working for Jack Daymond, a farmer,
who farmed livestock, potatoes and vines.
I s’pose he had over two hundred cattle.
The spuds and the grapes grew in lines.
Oh gawd! Jack had me slavin......
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Categories:
spick and span, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Hoeing Stones
...Standing hoeing garden stones
Eyes awash with tears
As memories flood back from
More than sixty years,
To the little village churchyard
For which my dad cared
And which duty I, as a child,
So ......
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Categories:
spick and span, childhood, dad, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
A Matter of Pride
...To take you in hand
or hold you here where you stand
the wind is your guide
as I salute you with pride
emblem spick and span
for I am a yorkshire man
together we hoe
tall in the fields hence I......
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Categories:
spick and span, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
The Voice In My Dreams
...Ssss.....
Splendour smooth sound that sounded severally sometime ago,
Smoothly stealthy sensating my soul.
Sound sounding second by second significantly,
saying ''I love you Thabiso'' not even sw......
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Categories:
spick and span, love, sweet, sound, love,
Form:
Limerick
Design of Inhuman
...The journey began from birth
Since presented out into this life,
The brow beating experience,
Gloom besetting this vagabond soul
Are harrowing like the trail in front,
The ancestors had pro......
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Categories:
spick and span, mysteryjourney, life, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I'M Not Perfect
...I used to long for the perfect childhood
the perfect husband, children and house.
I used to long to be wealthy, beautiful looking and perfectly healthy.
They say the grass is always greener.
......
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Categories:
spick and span, life,
Form:
Light Verse
Getting Grubby - a Little Kid Again Contest
...The sun was shining brightly
Shall we go to the lake said Mam
I was washed and dressed
Placed in my buggy , all spick and span
Mam dressed my sister
Then herself she had cleansed
Ready for the off n......
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Categories:
spick and span, child, dog,
Form:
Rhyme
Maid For Each Other
...It takes two to tango
So here we go
She cooks
I clean
Utensils now have
A never before sheen
Sweeping, mopping
And all such things
Under my control
I put my heart and soul
Into these
Aft......
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Categories:
spick and span, humor, humorous, marriage, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
The South Westerly
...Oh! for the wet warm South Westerly
after the cold white North Easterly leaving
sparkling rain on each window pane South Westerly.
......
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Categories:
spick and span, winter, rain, snow, rain,
Form:
Free verse
The Boss Comes To Dinner
...The Boss Comes to Dinner
By Elton Camp
It was for the very first time in my life
We asked to dinner the boss and his wife
Company’s sales and profits were down
And talk of layoffs had been g......
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Categories:
spick and span, funny
Form:
Rhyme
As Beautiful As the Sun
...Every now and then she glows like the sun
With a winsome sight and the spheric wish,
Like the Romeo’s wish, with her love they run,
The lovely features I have vowed to cherish.
Like beauty like sun t......
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Categories:
spick and span, girlfriend-boyfriend, beauty, beauty, love,
Form:
Sonnet